comments w/membership login redirect

Hi,

If you open up your website membership plugin file, you'll probably see this line near the top:

$GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_POST_LOGIN_URL'] = '/';

This tells the plugin where to redirect the user after they have successfully logged in. To keep them on the same page, remove the slash:

$GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_POST_LOGIN_URL'] = '';

Give that a try and let me know if you run into any problems.

I tried that change. Here is what happened:

(1) Go to page with user comments when not logged in. Click login in order to comment.
(2) Taken to user-login page.
(3) Submit username and password.
(4) User login page now says "You are already logged in. Click here to continue, or Logoff." (This seems a little odd... I was hoping for an immediate redirect back to the original page.)
(5) Clicking on "click here to continue" now doesn't take me anywhere. (Before removing the slash it would take me to the root.

thanks!

I'm having this same issue - when changing this:
$GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_POST_LOGIN_URL'] = '/';
to this:
$GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_POST_LOGIN_URL'] = '';

and running through the sames steps as charnuska (minus the comments plugin which I'm not using) the link now directs nowhere, essentially 'working' as you've described - it 'keeps them on the same page' which in this example is the login page.

I'm looking for an immediate redirect back to the original page - the one the user initially clicked on to login. Is this possible? I also couldn't tell if there was ever a solution posted.

Thanks,
Cricket7475

Hi,

I think we've found a solution to the problem.

If you set a URL to lastUrl in the sites cookie a user will be automatically redirected once they have logged in. If you are using the comments system the best place to add this code is in your comments template file where it checks if a user has hasn't logged in. In the default template this is on line 44:

<?php if (!$CURRENT_USER): ?>
<?php setcookie(getCookiePrefix()."lastUrl", thisPageUrl(), time()+(60*5)); ?>
Please <a href="<?php echo $GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_LOGIN_FORM_URL'] ?>">login</a>
or <a href="<?php echo $GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_SIGNUP_URL'] ?>">sign-up</a> to add your comment.<br/>
<?php endif ?>
<!-- End: Add your comment -->

You will need to add the line of code that is highlighted in blue above. It will set the current page URL to a variable called lastUrl in the cookie. I have set it to expire after 5 minutes in the above example, so that if the user visits another part of the site and then logs in they will not be automatically taken back to the last comments page they were looking at after 5 minutes. You can alter how long the cookie lasts by changing the 5 to however many minutes you want it to last in the +(60*5) part of the code.

You can also use this line of code on any page that you would like the user to be returned to after they have logged in and not just in the comments plugin. You just need to add it after the viewer functions have been called on any PHP page.

Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks

Greg

Hi,

I think the most likely problem in this case is the cookie needs to be set before any HTML is displayed, as it needs to modify the header information. Have you tried setting the cookie right at the top of the page?

Thanks!